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Oops All Santas · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: The Large Nerdron Collider Podcast is a production of I
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  Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey everybody, welcome to the Large Nerdron Collider Podcast,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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  Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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  Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ariel casting and with me as always
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  Speaker 1: is snowing and blowing. Jonathan Strickland. My bells are Jingland.
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  Speaker 1: I like. I like how that's like a tie back
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  Speaker 1: to an earlier episode from this month where you were
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  Speaker 1: a jingle jangle with the cowboy hat. Yes, yes, it's
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  Speaker 1: almost like we didn't record that a couple of days earlier. Hey, Ariel,
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  Speaker 1: I got a question for you. Okay, Ariel, here's your question.
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  Speaker 1: What is a geeky present that you have received for
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  Speaker 1: the holidays in the past. Doesn't have to be the geekiest,
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  Speaker 1: just one that stands out in your mind and can
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  Speaker 1: you tell something. Yes, this is so. I've received a
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  Speaker 1: lot of geeky presents O the um. But I yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you have a Kermit Kermit the Frog T shirt that
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  Speaker 1: I think is pretty It is pretty awesome. I'm working
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  Speaker 1: to lose weight so I can wear it again. Um
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  Speaker 1: see like Okay, So I think the first I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna with the first one that comes to mind, which
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  Speaker 1: is I got some cookie stamps and uh one of
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  Speaker 1: them has a skulling crossbones and it says not poison,
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  Speaker 1: and I, I don't know, I'm a baking geek, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, I am a nerd if you want to
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  Speaker 1: go that way, Like recently I got Jimmungi for Christmas
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  Speaker 1: and that was awesome, like on DVD just in case
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  Speaker 1: it's ever available on streaming, um, the new one. But yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a baking nerd, and just having a
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  Speaker 1: not poison uh cookie stamp has come in so useful
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  Speaker 1: for so many of like my geeky endeavors, like I've
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  Speaker 1: I've made not poison cookies for tabletop games when we
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  Speaker 1: visited a bakery, and I've made not poison cookies for
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  Speaker 1: my LARP and like, yeah, so you wouldn't think necessarily
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  Speaker 1: that a baking tool would be geeky, but it totally is.
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  Speaker 1: Hence my rambling about it anyhow, Jonathan, what's a geeky
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  Speaker 1: present that you've received? Like you, Ariel, I have received
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  Speaker 1: more than my share of geeky presence. I'm sitting in
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  Speaker 1: a room where I've got a bunch of them surrounding me.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, like I have Minecraft style torches that are
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  Speaker 1: mounted on the wall behind me that we're a present.
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  Speaker 1: But the one that I think stands out in my
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  Speaker 1: mind because it was a pretty expensive present for the
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  Speaker 1: time it still is, really was a Mace windew lightsaber.
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  Speaker 1: And this was when they were first starting to make
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  Speaker 1: those lightsabers that had the fluorescent to where it lights
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  Speaker 1: up the way you would see a lightsaber extend in
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  Speaker 1: the movies, and had all the sound effects and everything,
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  Speaker 1: and had the collision detections that when it hits something,
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  Speaker 1: we would make the noisy on the lightsaber noises, and
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  Speaker 1: I just remember that being so awesome, Like it was
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  Speaker 1: weird that they that that I was given the purple
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  Speaker 1: Mace window lightsaber, because that's a real outlier, you know. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's un it's unmistakably the Mace window lightsaber, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised it wasn't either of the Luke lightsabers or
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  Speaker 1: even the Darth Vader went But I really enjoy it,
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  Speaker 1: um and I still haven't, But yeah, that's a that's
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  Speaker 1: one that stands out in my mind because it was
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  Speaker 1: one of those toys where it's just like when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid, the toy lightsabers. You either had hilt
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  Speaker 1: that kind of looked like one of the lightsabers, but
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  Speaker 1: that was it. It was just the hilt, so it's
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  Speaker 1: more of a costume piece. Or you had the plastic
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  Speaker 1: one that had the little you know, segmented telescoping lightsaber
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  Speaker 1: where it's like made out of that that relatively soft plastic,
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  Speaker 1: but you didn't have anything like they don't knock those
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  Speaker 1: little three extended ones. It makes such a satisfying thunk
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  Speaker 1: when you hit somebody with them. Oh, I trust me.
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  Speaker 1: I have both hit people and been hit by those lightsabers.
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  Speaker 1: And of course now you can do things like go
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  Speaker 1: to disney Land or Disney World and go to the
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  Speaker 1: experience where you can build your own lightsaber and choose
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  Speaker 1: the hilt you want and the kind of color you want.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I felt a little bit of temptation to
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  Speaker 1: do that, but not enough to actually PLoP down the
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  Speaker 1: two bucks or so it costs to do it. Um,
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  Speaker 1: maybe when things are are a little less pandemic, E,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'll consider it. It's it's tough because I think
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about this before. I've reached the point in
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  Speaker 1: my life where I don't really need more stuff, so
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  Speaker 1: I have to battle between my desire to indulge in
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  Speaker 1: my geegee love for things like lightsabers versus the practical
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  Speaker 1: need to not be buried under jump. So I think
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  Speaker 1: one we've had a few friends who have gotten lightsabers
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  Speaker 1: from like build your own lightsaber as a present from people.
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  Speaker 1: So someone knows, hey, you're going to Disney, let me
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and gift you a lightsaber for while you're there.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's a great way to do it,
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  Speaker 1: because Disney is so expensive on its own. But what
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  Speaker 1: you can do with all of your lightsabers that you built, Jonathan,
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  Speaker 1: is you can line your ceiling with them and light
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  Speaker 1: up your room. Takes up no additional space. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it would. I wouldn't be opposed to it. But that's
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  Speaker 1: it for that that question segment. And because this is
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  Speaker 1: this is a special episode, you know, we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be able to take some time off for the holidays,
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  Speaker 1: but not you know, not go without episodes. Obviously, we
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  Speaker 1: wanted episodes to go out, and so this is one
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  Speaker 1: of those special episodes where we have pre recorded it.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to talk about the news because that's
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  Speaker 1: not how news works. And instead the idea came up
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  Speaker 1: to talk about Christmas episodes of TV shows. So shows
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  Speaker 1: that are not you know, these aren't like one time
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  Speaker 1: Christmas special type things like Charlie Brown, right, it's not
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  Speaker 1: that or Rudolph read those Reindeer. Not that those aren't brilliant,
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  Speaker 1: we love them, but these are episodes, special episodes of
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  Speaker 1: series that otherwise are you know, about something else, and
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to talk about some of our our choices. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I just want to start by saying when we
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  Speaker 1: agreed on this topic, and and by the way, I
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  Speaker 1: know it's it's almost Christmas, so for anybody who celebrates
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  Speaker 1: happy that time. Um. When we first started talking about this,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, I love Christmas episodes of
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  Speaker 1: different TV shows, and that's true. But then I realized
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  Speaker 1: something that, like, while I enjoy watching them while they happen,
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  Speaker 1: there are very few that I actually like go back
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  Speaker 1: and revisit every year. I kind of had to remind
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  Speaker 1: myself of a lot of them, and there are a
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  Speaker 1: lot that I like, but yeah, it's more of a
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed the new surprise every year. Agreed, There are
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  Speaker 1: a couple that are, like I think for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these, the Christmas Special, it's one of those things
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  Speaker 1: where you want to watch it in the context of
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  Speaker 1: the show as opposed to watching it separate from its
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  Speaker 1: own with a couple of exceptions, like I threw in
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  Speaker 1: The Goes Wrong Show For those who don't know what
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  Speaker 1: The Goes Wrong Show is, it's from Mischief Theater. That's
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  Speaker 1: the theater group that created the play That Goes Wrong,
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  Speaker 1: as well as several other plays. And the whole premise
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  Speaker 1: is that it's a group of amateur Drama Society members
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  Speaker 1: who put on shows, but everything goes wrong because, uh,
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  Speaker 1: they're not They're not terribly capable, right they are. They
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  Speaker 1: make a lot of mistakes, both the people who are
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  Speaker 1: the actors and the stage crew. And of course it's
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  Speaker 1: all very very carefully designed and choreographed so that things
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  Speaker 1: go wrong when they need to go wrong. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a level of humor that really appeals to me.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Ariel and I both have a history in theater.
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  Speaker 1: We've both been in shows where things are there's about
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  Speaker 1: stuff like the Ghost Wrong Show. Yeah, you gotta just
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  Speaker 1: be able to roll with it like we've we've probably
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  Speaker 1: been in shows together where stuff has gone wrong, usually
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  Speaker 1: at a pretty minor level, nothing like to a show
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  Speaker 1: stopping level. But that's the whole gig, you know, gag
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  Speaker 1: with the Goes Wrong show is that nothing stops the show.
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  Speaker 1: They they live and breathe, The show must go on ethic,
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  Speaker 1: even as the set may literally be burning down around them.
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  Speaker 1: And they have done a few you different Christmas specials.
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  Speaker 1: They've done Peter Pan Goes Wrong, which is yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: which you don't. You don't think of Peter Pan is
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  Speaker 1: a Christmas thing, except that it's a frequent Christmas pantomime
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  Speaker 1: in in England, So that's why they did that. I
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  Speaker 1: think of Peter Pan has an every holiday story. I
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  Speaker 1: know you do. But they also do Christmas Carol Goes Wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And this past season they opened with the Nativity Goes Wrong,
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  Speaker 1: which was pretty good. Yeah, that that sounds some special.
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  Speaker 1: It is really interesting because we all wrote down we all,
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  Speaker 1: we all, me and Jonathan, we wrote down the episodes
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  Speaker 1: that do stand out to us, and you wrote down one,
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan that I cannot stand. What's that? It's the always
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  Speaker 1: Sunny in Philadelphia a very sunny Christmas. Oh it's so good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the claimation bit of it. It's it's it
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  Speaker 1: is the one with the claimation. Correct. Yeah, it's so
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  Speaker 1: dark and so mean spirited, like you don't like how
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  Speaker 1: I met your mother, And I understand that always Sunny
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to be dark and mean spirited. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's um kind of a parody or commentary on that
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  Speaker 1: kind of person. But it is just so dark that
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  Speaker 1: it just left me feeling. Looky, I love that special
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  Speaker 1: so much. It is not safe for work. It's not
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  Speaker 1: for kids. It is it is dark, it is um,
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  Speaker 1: it is sophomoric, it is uh, it's grotesque and it's
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  Speaker 1: amazing and I love it. Now. That's it. That's coming
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  Speaker 1: from someone like I actually really like sweet and sentimental
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  Speaker 1: Christmas stuff like I am not. I'm not. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: jaded and cynical where I only like, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: dark stuff or whatever. But I do really love that
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  Speaker 1: particular episode. Yeah. Uh, you know, that's okay. We can
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  Speaker 1: have different opinions. You talked about sweet, and I think
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  Speaker 1: one of the one of the Christmas specials that I
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  Speaker 1: do return to a lot, oddly enough, is the Golden
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  Speaker 1: Girls twist a Nightmare before Christmas. It's it's just such
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  Speaker 1: a such a it makes me feel so good leaving it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Well, can you give kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a quick sort of high levels of what it's about.
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  Speaker 1: I can. So. It starts snowing in Florida, where the
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  Speaker 1: Golden Girls are set, even though the film to California,
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  Speaker 1: and so none the girls very unusual, very unusual to
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  Speaker 1: snow in Florida. None of the girls get to go
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  Speaker 1: do what they want to do. So they go out
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  Speaker 1: to a diner and there's this this older dude who's
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  Speaker 1: running the diner, and they chat with him and they
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  Speaker 1: watch watch the diner for him so he can go
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  Speaker 1: visit his family. And it's just I don't know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a very simple premise, but it's absolutely delightful. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Just seeing people selflessly help each other to make someone's
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  Speaker 1: day better is wonderful. Well, and it's it's funny because
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  Speaker 1: we each have a Twilight Zone episode listed. Although mine
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  Speaker 1: is the original Twilight Zone, it was remade for another
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  Speaker 1: version of twilight Zone. But I was thinking specifically of
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  Speaker 1: the original run of twilight Zone. The Rod Serling run
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  Speaker 1: of Twilight Zone, and you have a new twilight Zone
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  Speaker 1: one and I'm not familiar with the traveler or a traveler.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell me what that is? Yes, so a traveler.
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  Speaker 1: It's Um, the guy who played the actor's name. He's
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  Speaker 1: a voice of Invincible. Oh oh yeah yeah when yeah
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  Speaker 1: you when he was in UM Walking Dead, wasn't he yes,
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  Speaker 1: Steven you? Yes he was Um. He plays I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is a huge spoiler because I'm just gonna spoil
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  Speaker 1: the episode for you. He plays. Oh no, I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it the right Okay. So he plays
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  Speaker 1: a mysterious traveler who shows up at like an Alaskan
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  Speaker 1: Christmas party for like the police. There's there's some tension
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  Speaker 1: between like the the Inuit people there and and the
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  Speaker 1: Caucasian people there. I guess it's not huge, but it's
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  Speaker 1: definitely there. Um, and they lock this dude up in jail,
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  Speaker 1: and like he makes friends with everybody, and then it
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  Speaker 1: turns out he's an alien and then there's an alien
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  Speaker 1: invasion and like, I know that's dark. Uh. When I
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  Speaker 1: just said I really like uplifting Christmas specials, but it's
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I was able to anticipate it just
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  Speaker 1: enough and just not enough to make it a really
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  Speaker 1: fun Twilight Zone jury journey. That being said, I really
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  Speaker 1: do like Night of the Meat, which which you also
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  Speaker 1: is the one that you said you like, yeah, And
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  Speaker 1: that one is very much not your typical Twilight Zone.
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  Speaker 1: It's not creepy or unsettling. It's very sweet. It's the
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  Speaker 1: story of a man who's down on his luck. He's
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  Speaker 1: playing essentially a store Santa, but he's depressed. He's having
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  Speaker 1: issues with alcoholism, and all he really wants to do
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  Speaker 1: is to be able to give people the things that
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  Speaker 1: they most need and most want, Like he wants that
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  Speaker 1: that feeling of being able to make other people's days better.
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  Speaker 1: And he comes across a sack that manifests the things
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  Speaker 1: that people want but otherwise wouldn't get, and he starts
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  Speaker 1: giving them out as gifts. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: say any more than that, other than it is incredibly
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  Speaker 1: earnest and sincere and corny. Like you could argue it's corny,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care about any of that. I love that
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  Speaker 1: episode like I love I love the twisted, dark episodes
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  Speaker 1: of Twilight Zone two. I like the ones that have
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  Speaker 1: the morality tails. But this one is, just, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: a very sincere and sweet episode. I'm not saying it's
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  Speaker 1: brilliant and like everything is telegraphed a billion miles ahead
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  Speaker 1: of it, but it's just a it's a nice thing
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  Speaker 1: to watch. Well, yeah, it's that's exactly it. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: delightful that twilight Zone said, Yeah, we usually make you
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  Speaker 1: feel a little creeped out, we're gonna we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a little nice for once. Um. Another one I want
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  Speaker 1: to mention because you know, speaking of twilight Zone, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of sci fi and comic and all that uh
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  Speaker 1: sort of genre have Christmas specials. But one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite ones is not even for the story. It's Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Who's Last Christmas, because they cast Nick Frost as Santa Claus,
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  Speaker 1: and I just I love the meta for that, and
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  Speaker 1: he also does a really great job. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: story is about like, uh face hugging crabs that suck
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  Speaker 1: your brains and make you dream bad. I think, but um,
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  Speaker 1: your classic Doctor Who's stuff, your classic Doctor who stuff,
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  Speaker 1: So it's not like super happy exception of Nick Frost,
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  Speaker 1: who makes an amazing Santa Claus. I was like, that's
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  Speaker 1: cute and then he totally blew me away. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: would love for us to continue. We've got a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch more that we've written down, but we're starting run
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  Speaker 1: low on time, and we want to come back and
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  Speaker 1: give a mash up that neither of us made, but
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  Speaker 1: someone a beloved listener made, and we're going to share
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  Speaker 1: that with you when we come back after this break.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So we're back, and we recently got a
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  Speaker 1: mash up from some of our listeners to do the
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  Speaker 1: Mandalorian mashed up with Santa claus Um and then our
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  Speaker 1: listener Penny, Thank you, Penny, a little peek behind the curtain.
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  Speaker 1: Penny is actually my niece actually wrote a mash up
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  Speaker 1: for it, and it was so good that we decided
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  Speaker 1: our mashups couldn't be the same one. We had to
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  Speaker 1: instead mashed Santa Claus up with other properties. But we
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  Speaker 1: also wanted to read hers on the air because she
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  Speaker 1: put a lot of effort into it and it's it's
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  Speaker 1: absolutely charming and it's called the Santa Laurean, and uh
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  Speaker 1: we we decided, like, how do you how do you
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  Speaker 1: divide this up? I mean, how do you divide up
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  Speaker 1: a story that was written by someone. So what we
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  Speaker 1: made the we made the executive decision that Ariel's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the narrator and that will provide voices. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: all right, for your listening pleasure. The Santa Laurean. It
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  Speaker 1: was two days before Christmas and Mando Claus was checking
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  Speaker 1: on his elves to make sure everything was going all right.
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  Speaker 1: As he entered the workshop, the elves stopped what they
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  Speaker 1: were doing to look at him, all but one, but
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  Speaker 1: Mando took no notice. Mendo Claus walked through, passing section
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  Speaker 1: by section until he came to the end of the line.
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  Speaker 1: There at that station was an elf he'd never seen before.
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  Speaker 1: He was smaller than the others, and he had long,
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  Speaker 1: slender ears, and he was green. Mendo Claus looked at
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  Speaker 1: the toy the elf was fixing, and he did a
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  Speaker 1: double take. The toy was floating in the air. The
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  Speaker 1: elves seemed to be doing nothing but raising his hands
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  Speaker 1: and making movements, and yet the repairs were happening. The
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  Speaker 1: elve's eyes were closed, so he didn't notice Mando Clause
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  Speaker 1: ending there. Hey, mendo Claus said, The elf did not
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  Speaker 1: answer Hey. Mando called more forcefully. The elf startled, dropped,
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  Speaker 1: the toy, shattering it. Because of all the commotion, the
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  Speaker 1: workshop went silent. Who are you, mendo Claus asked. Mendo
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  Speaker 1: Claus watched as the elf made hand movements and gestures
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  Speaker 1: for over ten minutes. He was able to deduce that
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  Speaker 1: the elf was not an elf, but his name was
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  Speaker 1: Baby Snowda. He was a very young fellow and needed
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  Speaker 1: to get back to his people, the sled Eye. He
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  Speaker 1: explained that he was hiding from Moth Grinch, the man
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  Speaker 1: who wanted his force powers to ruin Christmas. Baby Snowda
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  Speaker 1: had ambushed another elf, stolen his clothes, and disguised himself
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  Speaker 1: as that elf. He had been using the force to
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  Speaker 1: fix toys, hence the floating mendo Claus was bewildered. This
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  Speaker 1: was weird. Suddenly, as if on cue, moth grinche burst
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  Speaker 1: into the workshop. He was a tall, green creature whose
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  Speaker 1: heart was three sizes too small, and he was wearing
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  Speaker 1: a black space suit. In a black cape. He carried
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  Speaker 1: a thirty nine and a half foot glowing pole. Give
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: me the ol what gets hurt, sneered moth Grinch. I
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: don't think so. The kid stays with me. Mando Claus replied,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: sarcastically picking up Baby Snowda. He gave a signal and
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: all the other elves jumped up with toy swords and
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: toy bows and arrows. They charged after moth Grinch, fighting
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: as hard as they could to protect their Santa Loorian.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: This gave Mando Claus and Baby Snowda a chance to escape.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: They climbed into Mando claus A spaceship, the Polar Crest,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: and set a course for Tattooed the sled eyes home planet,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: hoping to find one's still there. They set the ship
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: into hyper drive and relaxed in the cockpit. While traveling,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Baby Snowda became particularly interested in a small spherical ornament
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: on the flight control stick. Mendo Claus noticed his interest
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and gave it to the elf to play with, warning
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: him not to eat it, but Baby Snowda put it
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: in his pocket for safe keeping. Not long after, they
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: arrived at tattooeen. As they were stepping out of the ship,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: they discovered they were in the middle of a skirmish.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: On one side, two outlaws. On the other side, two
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: women a Santalurian covered in Christmas bows, fighting alongside a
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: marshall singing Christmas Carols. Mendo Claus saw that they needed help,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: so he took his pistol and shot an outlaw, while
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Baby Snoda used the force to eliminate the other. The
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Santa Lurian in the marshal thanked them gratefully. The women
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: explained that they came from Navarro. The Carol singing marshal
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: said that her name was Carol Tunes and the Santa
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Laurian was Christmas Bocaton. Mendokaus explained their mission and asked
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: if they knew anything of the sled eyes. Carol Tunes didn't,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: but Christmas Bocaton was aware of one that was being
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: held captive on Tattooeden on a docked Empire ship. The
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: two women offered to help mendo Claus on his quest
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: because he didn't know the planet very well. Mendo Claus
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: wholeheartedly accepted. The four set out to the valley. After
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: traveling for an hour on foot, they came to the
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: docked Empire ship. They took out two Stormed troopers and
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: snuck on board. They had to be careful that Baby
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Snowda made no noise because there were so many other
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: stormtroopers on patrol. Christmas Bocaton led them to the dungeon
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: where the sled Eye Luke Snowcatcher was being held. When
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: he saw them, he was surprised to Santa Laurean's a
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: marshal at a tiny elf had come to his rescue.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Come here, a little one, Luke said to Baby Snowda,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: recognizing him as his kind. Mando Claus set Baby Snowda down,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and Snoda walked cautiously towards Luke. Suddenly, Moth Grinch entered
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the dungeon to check on his prisoner. When he saw
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Baby Snowda, he immediately recognized him. He called his men
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: together and told them to get the small elf. I
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: have a plan, cover me, Luke said to the trio
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: as he turned to Baby Snowda. The trio fought as
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: hard as they could, but the stormtroopers were too much
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: for them. Well back, Carol tunscribed. As the stormtroopers pushed
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: them back to the cell, Moth Grinch was closing in
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: on them. All of a sudden, a tiny spherical ornament
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: flew across the room, hitting Moth Grinch right between the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: eyes while he was recovering. This gave Luke and Baby
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Snowda the chance to use the force to wipe out
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the stormtroopers. Mouth Gridge looked up to see his army defeated.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Knowing that he was outnumbered, he fled. Everyone shared moth grinches.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Days of terrorizing Baby Snowda were over. Luke scooped up
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Baby Snoda and they headed back to the Polar Crest.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Mando Claus realized it was almost Christmas Eve. He needed
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: to head home and finish getting everything ready. He was sad, though,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: to leave Baby Snowda. He liked the little guy, but
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Luke promised him that Baby Snowda would come to the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: workshop to help fix toys. Baby Snowda is very good
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: at fixing toys, even of his head, and the toys
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: are in the clouds, Luke said, and everyone laughed. Mando Claus,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Christmas Bocaton, and Carol Tunes climbed back into the Polar Crest.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: They waved goodbye, and Mando Claus was sure he saw
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Baby Snowda waved back. That was so good, Penny, we
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: loved it. Yes, yes, I apologize for my my, uh my,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: my performance. I you know, I'm a little rusty. It's
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: been a while. It was brilliant, Jonathan, you brilliant. I
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: felt my Carol Tunes was probably the the hit of
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the show, but I mean I think it was. I
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: think it was spot on. So um, yes, thank you
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Penny for writing that mash up. To everybody else listening,
• 23:30
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• 23:32
  Speaker 1: or you've got an idea for a mashup, write it
• 23:34
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• 23:36
  Speaker 1: and just because sometimes people tune out before the end,
• 23:40
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• 23:42
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• 23:45
  Speaker 1: for the show is l n C at I heart
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: media dot com. Now we're going to take a break,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and when we come back, we're going to give you
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: our mashups of taking a gigegy property and finding out
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: what happens when you add Santa to it. Okay, we
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: are back, Aerial. Who do you want to go first? Um,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you go first because I just read
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a lot. Okay, that's fair, that's fair. So what we
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: are doing here is, as I said, we're introducing Santa
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Claus into some sort of geeky property that otherwise would
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: not have Santa in it. Now, this actually gets a
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: little tricky because a lot of geeky properties have done
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: those little one off Christmas specials where at least there's
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: an implication that Santa Claus is there. So we had
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: to pick something that had not been done. I picked Loki,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: as in the Disney Plus mini series, which gets season
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: two coming up. So this, uh, this episode, this very
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: special Christmas episode of Loki takes place between season one
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and season two. Um so, if you haven't watched Loki,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: minor spoilers might be ahead. Here we go. Loki Odinsen
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: has a problem. He's stuck in an alternate time variance
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: authority where no one seems to know who he is,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: and he just spent a whole season trying to suss
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: out what was going on at the t v A
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: in the first place. Plus the holidays are around the corner.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's hard to say time works differently. At the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: t v A, Loki is thrilled that Mobius M. Mobius
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: is alive and well, though somewhat irritated that Mobius has
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: no memory of Loki. But he's determined to a tone
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: for his past, even if Mobius isn't really aware of
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: that past, and isn't really that keen on the whole
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: thing in the first place. But Loki, in an attempt
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: to explain who he is and where he is from,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: sparks something in Mobius. The revelation of the Loki variants
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: catches Mobius's attention. In particular, see the tv A is
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: still in charge of maintaining the timeline and making sure
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: things don't get too chaotic Loke. Loki clearly is an
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: agent of chaos, and that means his variants are still
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: a potential problem. It's not long before Mobius has picked
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: out a splinter off of the timeline that looks like
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: it might be an issue. Loki is still trying to
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: explain things to Mobius, desperately tags along as they travel
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: to this particular reality. If you're coming with us, you
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: need to put this on, says Mobius, shoving a pile
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: of white clothing toward Loki. Keep you out of sight,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Loki smiles. I assure you I am quite able to
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: keep out of sight. Gooda fooled me, says Mobius, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Loki scowls and grabs the clothes. Soon the t v
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: A team assembles, all decked out in white winter gear.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: They opened up a portal to the time who the
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: team appear on an icy plain with huge glaciers looming
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: in the distance. I know this place, says Loki. We're
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: on Yontenheim, and Mobius nods, land of the frost Giants.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Our variant was last detected here. Loki frowns, I was
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: born here, well, not here, but my version of here
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: is where I was born, though of course I mostly
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: destroyed my version of Yontenheim. And Mobia says, I'm going
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to ignore that. We need to track this variant down,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and they go, and they trek across a seemingly endless
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: expanse of ice, but as they do so, way off
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: in the distance, they spot the gleam of reflected light.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Mobia's gestures to the rest of his team making lots
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: of hand movements, and Loki watching weights and then says,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I don't understand what any of that was all about
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Mobia's size and looks at the ground and says, those
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: are hand signals intended for silent communication with the team,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: so that we don't alert the variant before we get there.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: But clearly that doesn't matter now, because you're determined to
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: give away our position. And Loki says, ah, I understand,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and then after a moment, he gives a thumbs up.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Mobias rolls his eyes so hard you can almost hear it,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and the group slowly advances, and as they get closer
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: they see that the reflected light is coming from a
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: fortress made from ice and snow. Mobias turns to the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: rest of the group and begins gesturing again, but as
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: he does so, the huge doors to the fortress silently
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: swing open, and Loki holds up a finger, stopping Mobias
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and points and Mobius turns around, sees the doors and
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: says great, well, so much for the quiet way. The
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: team moves in tense As they pass through the open gates,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: they hear a voice. Come forth, and no mean better man,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: says the voice, followed by a chortal. Mobias shares a
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: bemused look with his team and Loki shrugs and walk
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: forward into the chamber, at the end of which is
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: a throne, not a super ornate throne, but a simple one,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: and piled around the base of the throne are toys,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: tons of toys, and sitting on the throne is an
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: old chubby man, but a chubby man with a glint
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: of mischief in his eyes and a familiar smirk, and
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: he wears a robe of red trimmed with white. You're
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: welcome here, friends, says the man Mobius. You can rest easy.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Mobius has clearly taken aback. How could you possibly know
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: who I am? Oh? I know everyone, says the man
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: except you, and he points at Loki. You seem familiar,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: but I cannot see into you. Not one for introspection,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I suppose, says Loki. Oh oh, says the man. That's it.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: That's the explanation. We are the same. I never could
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: spot myself. Very good at staying out of sight, you know.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: And Loki turns to Mobius and says, see, I told you.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Mobius says knock it off, and turns to the old man.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: So you are low Key Lukey, says the old man.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: A long time. Yes, I once was Loki, but these
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: days I go by other names, Nicholas, kringle Vy Knoxman.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: You are Santa Claus, as slow Ki you. There is
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: a timeline in which I am Santa Claus and Santa smiles,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: big sense, doesn't it? And Loki for once is at
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: a loss for words. Well, you must all be here
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: to prune the timeline, says Santa. Mobius once again shocks says,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: that is our assignment. And what if I were to
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: tell you this splinter, as you may think of it,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: exists independently of your sacred timeline, asks Santa, and Mobius
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: tilts his head. In what way? He asks, Well, very
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: much the same way as the t V A, I expect. Look,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I stumbled upon this when thousands of years ago I
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: was running away from everything, everything I had done and
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: everything that had been done to me, and I found
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: this place, the place that stands apart, says Santa. Oh,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: says Loki. It looks like when for some exposition, And
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Santa laughs and says, well, we're all so good at that. Well,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: over my time here, I reflected all that had come before,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: and I decided that I should balance the scales as
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: where to atone for my mistakes, not for my sake,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: but for all the others. And so here we are.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: So Mobius looks down at his pad and he taps on.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: He says, I can't believe it, but it looks like
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: your story checks out. The timeline isn't really connected to
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: anything I don't understand, and Santa laughs, nother do I
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: but not everything requires an explanation I find. And now
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: it's time for your presence. Presence asks Mabias. You knew
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: we were coming, and Santa laughs again. I know when
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: you're sleeping, I know when you're awake, and I know
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: you've tried to be very good. And with that, Santa
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: begins to give gifts out to the t v A staff.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: And while now the staff fully understands why they receive
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: each individual gift, it turns out the presents are tying
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: back to who each person was before the t v
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: A took them. They might not be able to explain it,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: but each present has a deep meaning for them. Santa
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: turns to Mobius and here you are. Then he holds
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: up a little key and Mobius takes us. What's this for?
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: And sent to points and Mobius turns and says, wow.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: And of course there's a green and gold jet ski
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: on a little trailer. Might be a bit of a
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: challenge to find the time to use it, says Santa,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: but I couldn't think of a better gift. And as
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: for you, he says, while looking at Loki. I did
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: not know you were coming, could not see you. So
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I have no gift prepared, but perhaps you would like this.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: And Santa reaches down and picks up a box immaculately
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: wrapped in Christmas paper and hands it to Loki. Truly,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: we expressed on deepest gratitude, says Loki. Noh stuff it,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: says Santa. Open the box, and so Loki grands and
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: he tears open the paper and he opens up the
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: box and he stares down into it again, at a
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: loss for words, and then MOBIU says, tablet blips. We
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: have to go, He says to the team, if we
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: stay much longer than we might alert the rest of
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the tv A and I'd rather we just sort of
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: bury this one in paperwork. And with that he opens
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: up a portal and the tune retreats back as Santa waves.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: And that evening, in his quarters, Loki pulls out his present,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: a pair of Funko Pop figurine. It's one of Loki,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: one of Thor and he places them on a shelf
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: in his room. Merry Christmas, he says the end. Oh
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: my goodness. Okay, first of all, I know I said
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: not many Chris Christmas episodes go on my repeat watch,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: but this is how I get my repeat listen. Uh
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: second or absolutely delightful and and and second of all,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: you need to sell this to Disney before they steal
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: it from you. You can make I mean, like I
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: would probably make Santa's robe green and gold instead of
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: red and white in that case. But but yeah, it was.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: It was one of those things where like I was
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: honestly ariel peek behind the curtain, Like I was sitting
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: there thinking about what property did I want to mash
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: up with Santa Claus. And I thought of a whole
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: bunch and rejected them one after the other, as I
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: was like, no, I can't really think of anything entertaining
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: for that, And then I thought of Loki. And originally
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: it was going to be way more snarky, like I
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: set out to make a snarky, cynical, sarcastic thing, but
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: as I was writing it, I found like I couldn't.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: The story became what it was. I could not. I
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: could not push it in a different way. It would
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: not work that way. And uh yeah, and just kind
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: of as an insight again into how sappy I really am,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: you know, I loved it, and also your morphys Morbius Morpheus, Morbius,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Mobius Mobius. You know, I know that, I'm just so
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I'm still so touched by your mashup. Your Mobius impression
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: was fantastic. Spot on Owen Wilson. My wow was probably
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the weakest part of it, oddly enough, but all right,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: well enough of that. What property did you choose to
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: mash up with Santa Claus? So? I picked One punch Man,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and it's not nearly as as um sentimental. I picked
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: it simply because I was like, oh, yeah, one Punchman
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: could accidentally punch through Santa Claus. What would happen? It
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: would become the Santa Claus the story with Tim Allen
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: where he accidentally kills Santa Claus and then becomes Santa Claus.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I need to know who One punch Man is because, like,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I've heard the name, but I'm not familiar with the property.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: One punch Man is a manga and an anime, uh
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: cartoon about this dude who named said Toma, who is
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: so powerful that he can, like with one punch, he
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: defeats every villain, like just just absolutely obliterates them. Um
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: And that gets really really boring for him, and so
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: he befriends like this cyborg who's got a vendetta against
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: another cyborg who killed his family named Genos. They joined
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the Heroes Association and fight heroes and then they fight
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: people from the Monsters Association. It's pretty much that it's
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: it's it's honestly kind of a Monster of the Week
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: with the dude who can like really punch people. Um,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: they've made video games about it. Um. So that is
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: that is one punch man in a nutshell. It's actually
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: a really fun anime. I I quite enjoy it. Um.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: So this is the signed Tama Claus, say Toma clause yes, um,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: and this one does have the grade. I promise I
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: wasn't copying you too much. Penny. All right, you all
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: know the story of said Toma Claus, don't you. You don't, well,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: then gather round, children and hear a tale. Once upon
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: a time, in the distant city of z there was
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: a guy named said Toma. Said Toma had super strength
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: and could defeat his foes with one mighty blow and
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: a jolly ho ho ho. The locals, the few that
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: noticed him, called him one punch man. But what punch
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Man was sad, you see, Vanquishing bad guys with one
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: punch while fun at first, wasn't a challenge for him,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: and he soon got bored, and along with side Thomas,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: boredom came carelessness. So one faithful snowy December night, one
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: punch Man was staring listlessly at the night sky. He
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  Speaker 1: thought he saw what were northern lights, but the lights
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  Speaker 1: started coming closer and closer, until one punch Man found
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  Speaker 1: himself face to face with Lord Auroro Boris and his
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  Speaker 1: dark matter thieves with a yawn. Before the flashing, dazzling
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  Speaker 1: Lord could finish delivering his villainous monologue, one punch Man
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  Speaker 1: started carelessly punching and despatching the gang. As he finished
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  Speaker 1: off the lackeys, one punch Man turned to punch Lord
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  Speaker 1: Aurora Boris himself, but in his carelessness, he slipped on
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  Speaker 1: a patch of ice and not only punched through Lord
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  Speaker 1: aroar Boris, but also through Santa, who was coming down
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  Speaker 1: to deliver sigh thomas gift to him for being such
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  Speaker 1: a good hero. Lord aroar Boris and Santa both disappeared
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  Speaker 1: in a spectacular glittering flash of colors. One punch Man
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  Speaker 1: now sadder than before, went home to sleep, knowing he
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  Speaker 1: was getting no presents. The next morning, when he awoke,
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  Speaker 1: he went to put on his normal yellow hero suit
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  Speaker 1: and found that it didn't fit. How did he put
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  Speaker 1: on so much weight so quickly, he wondered, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he liked food, but he never gained that much weight before.
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  Speaker 1: Searching through his closet, he found an old red suit,
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  Speaker 1: larger than his yellow ones. He didn't remember buying it,
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  Speaker 1: but he needed to wear something, so he slipped it
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  Speaker 1: on and it fit perfectly, And that's when said Tama
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  Speaker 1: heard a knock at the door. He opened the door,
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  Speaker 1: and there in front of him was a very short
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  Speaker 1: cyborg elf. The elf introduced himself as Gino Spells and
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  Speaker 1: told said Tama to come with him. They sat down
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  Speaker 1: in a sleigh that was out in front, which took
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  Speaker 1: to the air and brought them both to the North Pole.
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  Speaker 1: Along the way, say Toama asked why the cyborg's name
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  Speaker 1: was Gino Spells, and he begrudgingly explained that it's because
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  Speaker 1: in the North Pole, where it gets really cold, the
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  Speaker 1: cold air makes his robot parts clinked together and it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like jingle bells. Once they got to the North Pole,
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  Speaker 1: Gina Spells explained to say Toma that by defeating the
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  Speaker 1: old Santa Claus, he one punch man automatically became the
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  Speaker 1: new Santa Claus. Toma Claus, if you will uh, he
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  Speaker 1: now had to deliver presents to all the good boys
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  Speaker 1: and girls on the super continental Earth. Satin Toma wasn't
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  Speaker 1: pleased about this, but he didn't want to leave the
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  Speaker 1: kids of Earth without toys, so he agreed to step
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  Speaker 1: up just this once. But first he had to go
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  Speaker 1: through training. He learned how to fit down chimneys, how
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  Speaker 1: to befriend reindeer, and that you are not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: punch naughty children into oblivion. Once he finished his training,
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  Speaker 1: it was just in time to start the Christmas Eve
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  Speaker 1: toy run. The sleigh ride was chilly, but there was
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  Speaker 1: one benefit, unlimited cookies and cocoa in the sleigh, and
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  Speaker 1: Santama did like his food. No sooner had signed, Toma
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  Speaker 1: Claus delivered his first set of presence and started to
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  Speaker 1: climb into the sleigh. Than they heard a ruckist down below.
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  Speaker 1: Gina's spells cyborg eyes narrowed as he spied the garrow
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  Speaker 1: inch sneaking in to steal the presence just delivered. The
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  Speaker 1: garrow Inch hated everyone heroes and monsters alike. Gina Spells
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  Speaker 1: nearly blew his lid as he blamed garrow Inch for
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  Speaker 1: killing his Christmas when he was a child. After a
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  Speaker 1: massive fight that destroyed half the living room of the
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  Speaker 1: house that they had just delivered presents to, Satin Toma
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  Speaker 1: Claus learned that garrow Inch was just stealing toys to
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  Speaker 1: give to some children. He rescued from the monster association
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  Speaker 1: because garrow Inch didn't hate kids. Signed Toma Claus explained
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  Speaker 1: that that's not the way to do things, and they
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  Speaker 1: came to a truce and sighed. Toma Claus offers to
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  Speaker 1: give a few extra toys to the garrow Inches children.
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  Speaker 1: The garrow Inch his heart grew three sizes upon that generosity,
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  Speaker 1: and he apologized to Gino Spells and they all worked
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  Speaker 1: together to deliver toys. Along the way. They also punched
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  Speaker 1: so many bad guys. One punch Man had no idea
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  Speaker 1: so many monsters were trying to stop Christmas, but with
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  Speaker 1: a trio of holiday heroes, they defeated every villain and
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  Speaker 1: delivered toys in record time. Then his work over one
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  Speaker 1: punch man Sam Toma Claus went to sleep to forget
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  Speaker 1: this adventure. But in the morning, when he awoke and
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  Speaker 1: stepped outside to see what bad guys needed punch in,
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  Speaker 1: he heard all the kids talking about how Santon got
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  Speaker 1: super awesome and saved their toys from being stolen, and
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  Speaker 1: santama Claus realized that maybe once a year he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: to be a kiddy hero instead of a punching hero.
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  Speaker 1: The garrow inch keep tabs on the north pole the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the time. The local children even came up
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  Speaker 1: with a song to celebrate this news attitude Santa had
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  Speaker 1: on life and to warn the bad guys from stealing
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  Speaker 1: their toys. You better watch out, You better not cry.
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  Speaker 1: You better not be a really bad guy, or santama
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  Speaker 1: Claus will come to your town. He sees you when
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  Speaker 1: you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake. He'll punch through
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  Speaker 1: you if you're really really bad, So be good for
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  Speaker 1: goodness sake. Oh, you better watch out, you better not cry,
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  Speaker 1: or send Toma Claus will punch you in the eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and Toma Clause protects Citizy town. Oh but look at
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: the time, you kids better get to sleep or Sant
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  Speaker 1: Toma Claus, you can't deliver your toys. Good night and
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  Speaker 1: sweet punching dreams. I can almost see the ranking bass
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  Speaker 1: animated special. I mean so so not nearly as touch
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  Speaker 1: as low key clause, but um, there you have it. No,
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  Speaker 1: it is brilliant. I loved it, and I love I
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  Speaker 1: love that for once the person who can sing on
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  Speaker 1: the show saying I mean I hope that, I hope
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  Speaker 1: that songs in common. Uh, it'll be fine, It'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: No one's gonna be come and make a copyright claims
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  Speaker 1: to us. I think, well, those are are you know,
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  Speaker 1: inserting Santa Claus into a geeky property that otherwise would
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  Speaker 1: not have Santa Claus in trees. But obviously there are
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: endless opportunities. So if anyone else there has an itching
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: need to write fan fiction in which their favorite geeky
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: property has a visit from Santa Claus, uh, feel free
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• 43:50
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• 43:53
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• 44:33
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• 44:36
  Speaker 1: know this year has obviously been a difficult one, like
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: everyone knows that. I don't even know why I bothered
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: saying it, because well, we all know it. But I'm
• 44:46
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• 44:51
  Speaker 1: the next time you hear us will be probably another
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: another episode we've pre recorded to lead into the new year.
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